“A Congressional Medal of Honor winner says he was ‘stoned’ on marijuana the night he fought off two waves of Vietcong soldiers and won America’s highest military honor …. It was April 1, 1970, when Mr. [Peter] Lemon … used his rifle, machine gun and hand grenades to smash a large attack ….”

I always use the term “cannabis” instead of “marijuana.” The reson I do that is because a lot of people tend to associate the weed with Hispanics, mainly Mexicans and others from South of our border.

Actually, cannabis has been around in many countries and cultures for thouseands of years. Archaeologists dug up a caucasian shaman in central China and discovered he had been burried with cannabis to help him in the “afterlife.” Wow! That was something like 5,000 years ago that the shaman died!

“Cannabis” comes from a Roman word. The Romans used the cannabis plant to make “canvas” for the sails for their ships. To associate the word “marijuana” with Hispanic cultures and countries doesn’t follow the original word for the plant and is unfair to Hispanics. Let’s all refer to the weed as cannabis from now on.

The term “weed” is odd. Weeds are considered pests to humans. Cannabis / Hemp whatever is a very useful plant. Its fibers can be made into papers, textiles and if I’m not mistaken even plastics. The seeds of industrial hemp strains are nutritious and can be processed into a variety of foods and livestock feed.

What the US needs right now is a massive tax increase on the rich and corporations. They are not spending their money usefully, and in the case of corporations are sitting on billions. In fact, every extra dollar of profit makes things worse, not better. If corps and the rich can’t use money to create growth, and in fact are using it in destructive ways, you take it away and use it to create growth (assuming the Obama administration knew how to do that, which it doesn’t. But theoretically, assuming competent individuals of good will in power. Yes, you can laugh hysterically now.)

While we’re talking about “cannabis,” I’d like to point out that the most important link is the one on slavery, the history of which has been remarkably bowdlerized.

A history quiz: Who was J. Marion Sims?

If the name is remotely familiar to you, give yourself a D. If you know that he’s considered the father of gynecology, give yourself a C. If you know that he performed his experiments on female slaves, give yourself a B. If you know that he didn’t believe that these female slaves were capable of feeling pain and, therefore, didn’t bother using anesthesia, give yourself an A.

If you’ve ever contemplated the meaning of the fact that, of all the possible medical specialties, Dr. Sims’ specialty was gynecology, give yourself an A+. If you know that there stands, today, a statue in New York’s Central Park dedicated to the memory of Dr. Sims and that this statue contains no reference to Dr. Sims’ use of slaves for his work and this fact completely pisses you off, then move to the head of the class.

I have a hard time deciding which was worse. A few details on the gynecology angle might shed further light. Sims pioneered the treatment of vaginal fistulas.

Vaginal fistulas, in those days, would have been most likely been the result of an injury incurred while birthing a child, and, while they did result in some discomfort for the women, would not have prevented them from working in the fields.

So, basically, Sims was treating thse women because they had been raped, and he was treating them so that they could be raped again.

11 Agreed. The slavery article is most insightful. The way the writer works in contemporary quotes from the likes of Reagan and Bachmann to show how the revisionism and whitewash continue is most compelling.

The smart set were bamboozled because he seemed like one of their own: Columbia, Harvard Law, sort of “editing” a journal yet the only editor in its history never to publish a signed article, giving a lecture or two on constitutional law, handing out leaflets on the South Side of Chicago, voting present, listening to Jeremiah Wright’s conspiracy theories for twenty years, dining with terrorist educator William Ayers. … These are achievements? … “I thought he’d do a better job,” whimpered telly genius Jon Stewart.

Now that Big Bad Jon and Little Fuzznutz Rabbit have finally made it possible to dump on the Chump in Chief without being accused of teabagger racism (teabaggers have never gotten over losing the Civil War), can the rest of us finally be forgiven for saying that the Chump is two pounds of shit in a one-pound bag? That the Chump, in other words, is like the Chimp without a flight suit?

Damn, but you are an idiot. It’s always been acceptable to dump on the chump, provided the facts upon which you base your dump has some resemblance to reality. Instead, you fuck-heads have wanted to dump on the chump for signing a health care law that included an individual mandate–an idea that was originally cooked up by the Heritage Foundation.

We dump on President Obama, because he’s too moderate. You dump on President Obama, because you think he’s some kind of radical. Yours is a stance that seems to ignore things like the fact that half the people who don’t like the ACA think that it didn’t go far enough.

Do I regret having voted for Obama? Not for a second. Why? Because Senator McCain would have been a complete and unmitigated disaster. Am I likely to vote for Obama despite the extent to which he has disappointed me? You bet your ass I am, because the most intelligent of the current crop of Republican candidates thinks we’re going to fall for the idea that he was paid to be a “history consultant” to Fannie and Freddie at a time when those two GSEs were tanking.

Why are there no jobs in America? 1) Unions. 2) The minimum wage. Abolish the minimum wage and make Right-to-Work the law and watch America’s economy come roaring back to world dominance. There will be plenty of jobs once the government and labor goons get out of the way.http://www.freerepublic.com/fo.....7424/posts

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